UX Design Job Trends in Belfast

User Experience Design (UXD)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring UX Design skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 35 37
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +30
Permanent jobs citing UX Design 8 7 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 1.96% 2.75% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.99% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £52,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

UX Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 326 234 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 79.90% 91.76% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 197 72 203
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £51,250 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £92,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,500 £87,500
County Antrim median annual salary £46,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.90% +11.36% +10.00%

UX Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing UX Design relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

UX Design job vacancy trend in Belfast

UX Design
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing UX Design.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing UX Design

UX Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
1 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
General
1 7 (87.50%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Digital Product Manager
1 7 (87.50%) Product Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Management Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (12.50%) Next.js
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (25.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) User Experience
2 7 (87.50%) Backlog Management
2 7 (87.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 7 (87.50%) Human-Centred Design
2 7 (87.50%) Product Management
2 7 (87.50%) Product Strategy
2 7 (87.50%) Telematics
3 5 (62.50%) Analytics
3 5 (62.50%) Budget Management
3 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (62.50%) Market Research
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (62.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 5 (62.50%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
3 5 (62.50%) User Research
4 3 (37.50%) Coaching
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) COBOL
1 2 (25.00%) JCL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) RACF
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes